Cottage housing

Michael Zamora/Caller-Times The cleared lot across the street from the new Oak Park Cottages will house the second phase of the Westside housing development in Corpus Christi,

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times C.J. Wilson drives his remote-controlled car past his house last month as visiting cousins Joshua Garrett, 6, and Jershaud Neal, 7, look on at the Oak Park Cottages. The Westside housing development has eight cottages ranging from one-bedroom to three-bedroom homes.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times A cleared lot stands ready in October 2011 for a new cottage housing development on the corner of Mueller Street and Erwin Avenue and on the Westside.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Eight cottage homes now fill the lot on the once cleared lot at Mueller Street and Erwin Avenue in Corpus Christi.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Residents have already moved into seven of the eight new homes in the Oak Park Cottages development in Corpus Christi. Developers plan to finish landscaping and adding fencing to the cottage porches as they work to complete the first phase of the Westside housing development.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Sebastian Morales, 10, watches TV in the living room inside their home in the Oak Park Cottages housing development in Corpus Christi. The open dining and living area is a feature in all eight of the cottage homes in the Westside housing development.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Eight cottage homes now fill the lot on the corner of Mueller Street and Erwin Avenue.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Isis Morales, 7 (left), plays a game in her mother's bedroom as her brother, Mikey Morales, 17, comes down the stairs inside their home in the Oak Park Cottages housing development in Corpus Christi.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Spacious bathrooms and contemporary colors are featured in each of the homes in the Oak Park Cottages housing development in Corpus Christi.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Plans for the Oak Park Cottages show eight homes with a shared green space in the center.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times A cleared lot across the street from the new Oak Park Cottages will be the site of the second phase of the Westside housing development in Corpus Christi.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Massy Futhey, a manager at the Oak Park Cottages, visits one of the residents in a two-bedroom home last month as she gives a tour of the Westside housing development in Corpus Christi.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times George Hodge Jr., chairman of Advance Housing Alternatives Corp., stands in front of the cleared lot in 2011 as he explains his plans to create the Oak Park Cottages on the Westside of Corpus Christi.

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Michael Zamora/Caller-Times A cleared lot stands ready in 2011 for the Oak Park Cottages housing development on the corner of Mueller Street and Erwin Avenue on the Westside.